Space News from SpaceDaily.Com brings the space industry professional daily news from the frontier, with contract, bid, launch and on-orbit satellite news as it happens. 02-JUL-09 en-us Paris, France (ESA) Jul 02, 2009 - The Ariane 5's 31st consecutive mission success was another record-setting flight for this workhorse Arianespace launcher - lofting the world's largest commercial satellite, TerreStar-1, from the Spaceport in French Guiana.]]> Washington (AFP) July 1, 2009 - The US space shuttle Endeavour has cleared a test for potentially harmful hydrogen gas leaks that twice delayed its high-profile launch, NASA said Wednesday.]]> Paris (AFP) July 1, 2009 - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies.]]> Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Jul 02, 2009 - Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said the country's first satellite image receiving station will be inaugurated in early July, the Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday.]]> Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 02, 2009 - SES ASTRA has announced that it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on ASTRA's 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using 31 transponders on the ASTRA satellite system.]]> Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 02, 2009 - ILS International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton. This was the third commercial mission of the year for ILS and the fifth successful Proton launch of 2009. ILS has launched the entire SIRIUS three-satellite constellation beginning with the first launch in 2000.]]> Durham, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2009 - Our Milky Way galaxy only survived because it was already immersed in a large clump of dark matter which trapped gases inside it, scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) found.]]> Paris, France (SPX) Jul 02, 2009 - Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust - the potential birthplaces of new stars.]]> Tiruchirappalli, India (PTI) Jul 02, 2009 - The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics was developing a payload for Indian Space Research Organisation's proposed solar mission Aditya to study the Sun's outermost region corona, a scientist of the institute said on Monday.]]> Washington (AFP) July 1, 2009 - Video-sharing site YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was doubling the size limit for uploads to its website to allow users to post more high-definition (HD) video.]]> Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jul 02, 2009 - In the true global village that we live in today, hundreds of millions of emails and messages are exchanged over telecom networks, which sometimes leads to network congestion. When this happens, service quality and reliability are affected. Hence, telecom operators always attempt to combat traffic congestion as a way of guaranteeing broadband service quality.]]> Washington (AFP) June 30, 2009 - US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.]]> Moscow (AFP) July 1, 2009 - Russia successfully launched Tuesday a US radio satellite from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported.]]>